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Tuesday, 28 February 2017

The studio group is getting stronger and stronger by the week, volunteers understanding more about their roles and people feeling more able to own the space on a Friday.

We are now preparing for the All In One Studio development course starting April supported by WEA and ESF funding.

How to get involved

If you are a refugee and/or a Liverpool resident creatively inpired but find yourself isolated socially or find being in social situations a challenge, then the All In One Studio may be the right place for you to start a new journey with creativity in your life.

Friday, 10 February 2017

We found out a week or so ago that the commitment and efforts by volunteers and members of the All In One Studio at SOLA ARTS held in our attic room upstairs has resulted in a successful funding bid to the European Social Fund to deliver a 9 month employability project. Yippie!The project will be to support learning and skills development, mentoring and personal development for people from BME, refugee and disadvantaged backgrounds who are either isolated or vulnerbale to mental health difficulties and have been long term unemployed.

Supported by an Art Psychotherapist & Creative Skills Support, Volunter Mentor, Learning Mentors and action planning Personal Development Social Worker the project aims to support 12 core learners and 30 other learners to develop their skills, explore their talents and work towards setting up the studio as a cooperative model.It's really exciting!!!

With thanks to the Workers Educational Association North West for administering the grant and supporting us through the project :-)

Thursday, 9 February 2017

We are all really looking forward to see what evolves this year withFESTIVAL31.

Karen Wynne has again returned to support us with Coordination and Curating the programming and artworks this year. Already we have Lisa and Urbain helping out as volunteers in the festival and are planning to take on a few more hands to support this initial planning stage.The first meeting for contributors and partners interested in delivering an activity during the month long programme is at SOLA ARTS on Monday 20th Feb 2017 1pm.

If you want to get invovled send Karen an email festival31.2014@gmail.com

Wednesday, 1 February 2017

SOLA
ARTS is a small participant-led community arts charity based in Liverpool. We
specialise in working with marginalised people through arts and creative
opportunity as a way of bringing people and communities together, empowering
and supporting positive health & wellbeing.

We
are the lead refugee arts agency in Merseyside and run the only specialist Art
Psychotherapy dedicated provision in the region.

However,
our expertise also covers working with people from minority communities
vulnerable to or living with mental health difficulties, the elderly, disabled
people, disadvantaged people, destitute people, and people generally vulnerable
due to social or cultural barriers.

SOLA
ARTS is recognised locally for our work with mental health and integration
through creativity and the arts, Art Psychotherapy, social & development
support, skilling up and integration for people from refugee and BAME
backgrounds.

We
value people and seek to empower individuals and communities. We are inspired
by and aim to inspire others as to the benefits of creativity for therapeutic
benefit and social engagement.

We
are currently looking for new Trustees who can add value and opportunity to our
team. We are particularly but not exclusively interested in people with a
background in community investment, finance, schools based provision, business,
marketing, or fundraising.